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Newspaper Page TextPagesl to20 PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL.. XXXI NO. 38. JURORS AND JUDGE CONDEMN LENIENCY ACTIOX OF COMMUTING DEATH SEXTEXCE IS CRITICISED. LETTERS FEATURE BEAN, CENTURIES OLD, PRIZEWINNER ROGUE RIVER VEGETABLE AT TRACTS AT JACKSOX FAIR. WARNS HIS HEIR TO MILLIONS TO BE MISSIONARY E E CASE POLICY WILLIAM R. BORDEN WILL TEACH HEATHEX CHINESE. 82 Pages tJ j WILSON PARTY NATIONS AGREE ON DIVIDING PERSIA ID RQ IS IGNORED IKING I DYNAMIT Ambassador Asks Re lease of Americans. MARINES BEADY FOR ACTION Governor of Temaulipas Re ceives Peremptory Note. COURTS SLOW IN ACTING Henry L. thority Takes Wilson, Acting With An of State Department, Short Cut to Secure Justice for Fruitgrower. MEXICO CITY. Sept. 21. Ignoring the usual channels of diplomatic inter course, the American Ambassador, Henry Lane Wilson, has made a per emptory demand on Governor Matlas Guerrera, of the State of Tamaullpas, for the Immediate release from the Jail at Tamplco. of W. G. Nichols, an American fruitgrower. Nichols was arrested six months ago on a charge -of having killed a bandit. Caballos. whose apprehension the authorities had attempted for many months. The embassy was authorized by the ; Administration at Washington to em ploy -whatever means were considered necessary to bring about an ameliora tion of Nichols' condition. Ambassador Wilson declares he will secure Nichols' release even If It should become neces sary to land marines from the United States cruiser Des Moines, which is now In port at Tamplco, with 280 marines aboard. Actios la Like Persecution. The American Ambassador regards the treatment accorded Nichols by the Mexican authorities as persecution, and has so declared In his message to the Governor. He points to the fact that a Mexican has confessed In court to being the slayer of Caballos, In support of his belief. This confession was dis regarded by the court, which declared It was prompted by belief on the part of the witness that a reward had been offered for Caballos. dead or alive. The Mexican was not arrested, and the process against Nichols was con tinued on an appeal from the sentence of eight years' imprisonment imposed upon Nichols by the Tamplco court. The appeal Is being heard before the court at Cludad Victoria, the state capital. Message Carries Authority. In his note to the Governor the Am bassador reminded him that his mes sage was not official, but that it was to be considered none the less authori tative. The killing of Caballos occurred near Tamplco. Nichols had been vested with authority to arrest the desperado, which he succeeded In doing. He was taking him to Tamplco on a train when. In the confusion at the crowded station, the captive escaped. Nichols and a big crowd pursued him. Nichols admits tiring, but the evidence showed that he fired In the air. The body of Caballos was found later several hun dred yards from the spot with a bullet through the heart. Nichols" high character had been tes tified to by a petition signed by 100 American residents of Tamaullpas, which was sent to the embassy begging intercession. Pe La Barra Is Acceptable. EI PASO. Tex Sept. 21. Minister Calerc when he departed from Wash- j JTafrTrok'preclpitaUng them ington two weeks ago. conveyed toln(0 the water William and Harvey President Madero warning from the I Ripley, aged 8 and 10, were drowned, Conehdd on Face 2. land the others saved themselves. i . ' f) ' ill & m - ! j . i2?y X krf ; . :: Foreman of Jury Says George Fig ueroa, "Tiger Man," Should Go to Gallows for Crime. ' LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21. (Special.) The1 jury which convicted George Flg ueroa, wife murderer and characterized throughout this county as the "tiger man." expresses strong disapproval of Lieutenant-Governor Wallace's action In commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment after Governor John son had repeatedly reprieved him. N. Currier, a prominent business man. was foreman of the jury, and dis cussed the commutation freely. "Figueroa was as guilty as any person that ever has been charged with mur der," he declared. "The crime was one of the most fiendish of which I have any knowledge-and he should be pun ished for it accordingly. It required only three minutes for the 13 of us to reach a verdict and that time was occu pied by the formality of casting the first ballot. I think Wallace's action is outrageous and the others who served on the jury feel the same way about it." John R. Woy, who was on the jury, expressed himself in even stronger terms, and many leading men and wo men are criticizing Lieutenant-Governor Wallace. Judge Willis, who trie,d the case, telegraphed as follows today from In dependence, where he had gone on business: The report that I recommended the commutation of Figueroa is incorrect. I agree with the Governor that he was poorly defended, but I do not agree with him on other matters. I am op posed to abolishing capital punishment for this class of offense." AGED UTAH JURIST DIES Stephen B. Twiss Attracted Notice by "Huling Against Bigamy. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Sept. 21. St xj Tuiis. formerly a Supreme Court Justice in Utah, died here today. after a lingering Illness, nt years old. , Mr. Twiss was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah by President Hayes in 1880 and served until 1885, when he retired. While on the Utah bench his i..n,tin nf the Edmunds law against polygamy attracted widespread notice. 2 ARMY AVIATORS KILLED Aeroplane Plunges to Ground "With German Officers. i-REIBURG; Saxony, Sept 21. Two German military officars were killed while flying near here today. This makes the third double fatality in Eu rope within the present month in which members of army flying corps were the victims. The machine, of the mono plane type, piloted by Lieutenant Ber. ger, who carried Lieutenant Junghans as 'a passenger, when passing over Frelburs: suddenly plunged from a high elevation to the ground. DOMINICAN CRISIS OVER Gunboat Petrel Leaves as Danger of Revolution Diminishes. WASHINGTON. Sept. 21. Danger of more revolution in Santo Domingo is thought to be passed. The gunboat Petrel, which has been watching events In the troubled zone, left Guantanamo yesterday for New York. She has as a. passenger Captain Kline., commander of the Guantanamo Naval Station. TWO BOYS DROWN IN LAKE Raft Vpsets and Six Lads Plunge Into AVatcr. ANACORTES. Wash.. Sept. 21. While I six boys were poling about on a raft CAETOOfKIST Government Prepares to Go to Trial. M'MANIGAL STAR WITNESS Prosecution Says McNamara Acted Under Orders. v EVIDENCE IS REVIEWED Almost Entire List of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers' Union Officials for Past Ten Tears Among Defendants. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 21. (Special.) The United States District Attorney and a corps of assistants are at work on the dynamiting cases which will be called for trial Tuesday, October 1, when 61 defendants, representing al most the entire list of officials of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers for ten years back, will appear in the prison ers' box in the Federal Court. The District Attorney has marshaled his testimony, consisting largely of docu mentary evidence, in such a way as to expedite the trial as much as possi ble. The records and letters taken from the offices of the iron workers have been arranged in the order of their dates and in the order in which the writers stand .toward the conspir acy that the Government charges ex isted In the organization to dynamite property. At the front of these stand the letters purporting to show what part Frank M. Ryan, international president, took In furtherance of the alleged conspiracy. Board Declared Implicated. John J. McNamara, the international secretary, handled all' the correspond ence, and gave practically all the In structions regarding places where ex plosives should be used, but "the Gov ernment contends there . Is. evidence showing that he was acting under the orders of the board, that the boarfl appropriated the money with which t buy explosives and pay the dynaniitera,l and that the men indicted were cog nlzant of all that was going on and In a majority of cases actually "planted" the dynamite. The letter from Ryan to other mem bers and from them to Ryan constitute an interesting part of the correspon dence. In one of Ryan's letters, writ ten to John J. McNamara from New York in April, 1910, he gave explicit Instructions as to how and, where the dynamiters should operate and named them in the letter. How well and ex peditiously these jobs were handled the Government, as alleged, will show from records in its possession and from the testimony of contractors. It will be Bhown that' the McClintock & Mar shall works at Mount Vernon were dynamited on the night of April 19; that the Davenport works, under con struction by the same company, were wrecked June 5; that work at Peoria was dynamited the same night; that the Cleveland job was dynamited on June 22; that the Pittsburg job, for which, it Is alleged, Lelghtner was selected, as it was his home city, was dynamited on the night of July 15, and that a bridge at Kansas City, which the Mc Clintock & Marshall Compaany was constructing, was dynamited on Au gust 23. McManIgal Quickly on Job. On Janpary 20, 1908, Ryan wrote to McNamara from San Francisco- that as he was passing through Clinton, Iowa, he noticed ,that piers had been (Concluded on Page 2.) TTS EEYTTQIIIS C01 IMEj Unique Feature Is Exhibit Grown ' From Seed Discovered in Crevice of Cliff-Dweller's Home. MEDFORD, Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) t-O. J. Ames, from-a small garden on the Rogue River bottoms, won the first prize of 60 for vegetables at the County Fair and Pear Show today. A unique feature of his exhibit was the beans grown -from a seed dis covered in a crevice of a cliffdweller;s homo in the Aztec ruins In Arizona. The original, bean had lain there, ac cording . to Mr. Ames, for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, when he secured, it. In 1909.. . It was planted the next year, the germinating element having survived, and the present crop resulted. It is similar in appearance to the Lima bean, but more prolific. Mr. Ames had 48 different varieties of vegetables In his display.' MRS. HARRIMAN .EXCUSED Estate Will Produce Papers for In spection by Committee. - WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Mrs. Harri man, widow of Edward H. Harrlman, the railroad magnate, and Miss Bliss, daughter of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-treasurer of the Republican National committee, will be excused from testi--i h.fnri the Senate committee in vestigating campaign expenditures. Sen ator Clapp ana senator ruiuci cided today. A sergeant-at-arms sent to New York m xnhnena them was assured by C. C. Tegthoff, formerly private secretary to Mr. Harriman, that Mrs. Harrlman had no personal knowledge of any con tributions, and tnai ne wouiu uo ing to produce any documents of the Harriman estate for the inspection of the committee. - Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr.. has assured a representative of the committee he would produce every paper the Bliss estate has relating to contributions. RECIPROCITY SAVES TAX Kansas Will "ot Collect From Estate of Late Edwin Hawley. TOPEKA, Kan.. Sept. 21. No inheri tance tax need be paid the State of Kansas by the estate of Edwin Haw ley of New York, according to the de cision here today of Judge Dana in the-District Court of Shawnee County. The State held it was entitled to the tax b?ause of stock held by Mr. Bawley In the Kansas City, Mexico & Orie-.dt and the Missouri. - Kansas & Texas railways. The administrators refu.W to pay the tax on the ground that ihe reciprocal relations law made Vm ectate exempt. This law in Kan sas provides that tne state will not tv inheritances Jrom states that do Wt tax Kansas inheritances. BRITISH MEMBERS ARRIVE Nationalist Will Explarn Home Rule. . Unionist to Study Milk Purity. - NEW x YORK. Sept 21. Two promi w YORK. Sent. nent members of the English Parlia ment arrived In New York today from Liverpool. '. One of them, W. H. K. Redmond, a Nationalist member from County Clare, will devote his stay to explaining the Irish, home rule bill to various associations of Irish-Americans. The other, Waldorf Astor, a, son of William Waldorf Astor, is a Union ist member of Parliament from Ply mouth. He bas been advocating health bills and came Ijere primarily to investigate the pasteurization of milk. YOUNG SURVEYOR IS LOST Searchers Fear John SI. Kecnan Has Perished in Mountains. BRETTONWOODS, N. H., Sept. 24. A thick bank of clouds on Mount Wash ington impeded today the efforts of searchers for John M. Keenan, a young surveyor of Charlestown, Mass., lost in the mountains since Wednesday. Keenan had no knowledge of wood craft, and as he was without pro visions and , heavy clothing he may have perished. PICTORIALLY ON SOME LEADING EVENTS OF Leader Makes Plea for Progressiveness. FIVE FELLOWS' UNWELCOME People Urged to Choose Men Who Understand Needs. NEW JERSEY FIGHT IS ON Governor Speaks Againstex-Senator Smith, Calling Him Reactionary and Advising Voters Nation Is in Critical Stage. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 21. Gov ernor Wilson proclaimed tonight In a speech on the New Jersey Senatorial situation that the only condition upon which the Democratic party can gain the confidence of the Nation is "That it should have itself through and through absolutely committed to a progressive policy." The Governor spoke here and in Ho boken in opposition to the candidacy of ex-United States Senator James Smith, Jr., and In behalf of Represen tative William Hughes for the office of United States Senator to be voted on In the state primaries next Tuesday. The Governor declared that it was his duty as spokesman of the Demo cratic party in the state to warn the people that James Smith, Jr., was not a progressive, but a reactionary. He declared it was no personal-contest, and that if Mr. Smith was his "dearest friend and held the same opinions that he does," the Governor would feel ob liged to oppose him. "Fine Fellows" Not Wanted. "I have never been aware of any per sonal feeling on my part in any politi cal contest against any individual," said the Governor. "There Is no man In New Jersey that I care to fight or to oppose because of his personal quality. The United States Is not choosing men now by their private characters mere ly;, it is not choosing them for their likeability; it is not choosing them be cause they are fine fellows but Is choosing them because they understand the Interests of America at the present moment. And many a man bred in the old school of politics is being rejected now; not because the doesn't hold his convictions honestly, but because he holds convictions from which the coun try has turned away. "We are at a critical juncture in the history of America, and at a very criti cal juncture in the history of the Demo cratic party. There is only one condi tion upon which the Democratic party can gain the confidence of the Nation, and that condition is that it should have Itself through and through abso lutely committed to a progressive pol icy. Turning Back Means Defeat. "Just so certainly as it turns back, just so certainly as It makes any other choice. It would be rejected now, and ,we need have no hope whatever of be ing chosen again for our generation. "In a statement which he has just Issued. Mr. Smith distinctly takes part his side with those who mean to maintain the present protective tariff. He puts it upon the ground that it is in the Interest of the American working man. Now, I am not going to stop and argue whether it was in the interest of -the American workingman or not that the monopolies grew up monopo lies that are now trying to break tne backs of organized labor. But the men who have grown so big as to threaten the power of the Government itself by (Concluded on Page 8. ) Vale Graduate Whose Share of Father's Estate Is $5,000,000 ., Accepts Post at Kansu. CHICAiJo, Sept. 21. William Whit ing Borden, son of the late William Borden and Mrs. Mary Borden, whose share of his father's estate is said to be 5,000,000, is to become a foreign missionary and will take up his life's work at Kansu. China, as soon as his studies are completed. He will be ordained a foreign mis sionary by the Island Missionary Soci ety at a local church tonight. Borden was graduated from Yale University in 1909 and last Spring finished a course at the Princeton Theological Seminary. SILETZ FISHERMEN FINED Two Caught Obstructing River With Setnets, Others Destroy Evidence. NEWPORT. Or., Sept. 21. (Special.) Angus Goar, fish bailiff, of Astoria, and James Gatens. deputy game warden, returned yesterday from a trip up the Siletz River, where they went to in vestigate reported violations of the state fish laws. 1 ' They arrested Roy Butterfleld and N. Hanula, on acharge of obstructing the stream with their fish nets. They were caught with the set-nets extended al most across the river. They both pleaded guilty and were each fined 050 and costs. Many of the fishermen had their nets similarly set. but learning of the presence of the deputies hastily removed them and the officers were un able to secure evidence for other con victions. -' They report an unprecedented run of fish in the SUetz River. Great com plaint Is made of the practice of fish ermen setting their nets so as to ob struct the passage of fish to the spawning grounds. COINS MADEJN PRISON Ekyptian Officials Trace ' Silver Counterfeits to Convicts. CAIRO. Sept. 2-. Officials have fin ally traced the silver counterfeits which have been in circulation to the Tourah Prison, where they were made by sev eral convicts. One of the convicts was found in pos session of an 1 ingenious instrument, made to coin five piastre pieces, and a quantity of silver bullion. The prisoner confessed and impli cated a fellow convict. . ' An Investigation has been ordered, as the authorities believe that several prisoners and minor officials of the prison were concerned in the plot. MAID OF MJST ON ROCKS Skillful Maneuvering Saves Vessel Xear Niagara Cataract. ' NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Sept. 21. The Maid of the Mist, the little steam er that for years has carried tourists close to the tumbling waters of Ni agara Falls, ran 'on the rocks today a short distance below the cataract. The situation was so grave that life boats were made ready for launching and the 20 passengers were equipped with life-preservers. By skillful ma neuvering, however, Captain Carter re leased the steamer by its own power and brought the passengers to the landing. AUTO ACCIDENTS ALARM French Government Plans Stringent Supervision Over Chauffeurs. PARIS, Sept. 21. The alarming in crease In the number of automobile accidents has led the Minister of Pub lic Works to urge the magistrate to Inaugurate a more energetic prosecu tion of violations of the laws govern ing automobiles. Ihe French government plans a more elaborate examination for per sons seeking drivers' licenses and the revocation of licenses temporarily or permanently in the case of serious or repeated accidents. THE WEEK. British Public Being Prepared for News. EXACT TERMS NOT DECIDED Russia and Great Britain to Absorb Buffer State. LIBERALS OPPOSE PLAN Party Newspapers Intimate Plea of Trade Interests Is Subterfuge and Predict Increase of Military Establishment. LONDON. Sept. 21. The practical division of Persia between Great Brit ain and Russia appears assured as a result of the conferences which Serlus Sazanoff, the Russian foreign minister, has bad with their statesmen. All the newspapers, which sre in closest touch, with the foreign office, particularly the Times, looked upon recently as Sir Edward Grey's mouth piece, are forecasting this arrange ment and apparently preparing the public mind for it. The necessity of preserving order In the Interests of trade is the principal reason advanced. Liberals Oppose Project. The Manchester Guardian and other Liberal papers oppose the project bit terly. - The Guardian says: "The foreign office, although"- not ordinarily over-sollcltous about trade Interests, knows well how to quota them for its own ends. Since the sign, ing of the Anglo-Russian convention of 1907, for the maintenance of Per sia's independence and integrity and incidentally for the division of the country Into British and Russian spheres of influence, there has been a steady growth of this Influence and a corresponding shrinkage of Indepen dence in Persia. The exact division of territory will not be easy. Tho Rus sian papers claim Teheran. If the Em peror gets the capital, Great Britain's share will be decidedly the smaller value. Increased Military Predicted. Some of the Liberal papers bewail the disappearance of Persia as the buf fer state and foresee a great Increase in the British military establishment when the British-Russian boundary Ii drawn across the middle of what is now Persia. Nowhere Is the outcome of the con ference between Sir Edward Grey and M. Sazanoff awaited with greater in terest than in the capitals of the Balkan States, and it Is believed they have a vital bearing on the crisis in the near East, the gravity of which, unless the powers Induce Turkey to introduce reforms In Macedonia Imme diately, all are agreed upon. The rep presentatlves in London of Bulgaria, Servla, Greece and Montenegro are watching closely the progress- of the conversations which began In London today and will be continued at Bal moral Castle on Monday. There is no confirmation here of the reported alliance of the four Balkan states to make common cause against Turkey, but it Is acknowledged that a reapproachment exists for their pro tection. Most Capacious Cable Is Laid. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. The largest submarine cable, in point of ca pacity, ever laid is being connected for telephone business today between this city and Oakland. It contains 153 pairs of wires, weighs 1S4 tons and is 23,000 feet long. In diameter it measures three and five-eighths inches'.